{"id":37286,"date":"2023-03-27T19:53:39","date_gmt":"2023-03-27T23:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.greenmoney.com\/2025\/?p=37286"},"modified":"2023-04-27T21:46:29","modified_gmt":"2023-04-28T01:46:29","slug":"carbon-equity-wants-climate-investments-to-pack-a-punch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.greenmoney.com\/2025\/carbon-equity-wants-climate-investments-to-pack-a-punch\/","title":{"rendered":"Carbon Equity Wants Climate Investments to Pack a Punch"},"content":{"rendered":"
>> Back to April 2023 Issue<\/a><\/div>\n

How one advisory hones in on funds that promise the most impact for net zero solutions and provides access for more investors.<\/span><\/em><\/h2>\n

If you\u2019re an investor looking to support solutions to climate change, how do you know your money can make an actual impact?<\/i><\/b> Jacqueline van den Ende <\/strong>(pictured) has made it her mission to provide an answer. The CEO, co-founder and \u201ccompany storyteller\u201d of Carbon Equity has leveraged her experience as a private equity investor and company builder to create an organization that directs capital to top-class climate funds.<\/strong> In a recent conversation in the\u00a0<\/span><\/i>TBLI Talk series<\/i><\/b><\/a>\u00a0conducted by Robert Rubenstein, van den Ende describes her career transition, the purpose of\u00a0<\/span><\/i>Carbon Equity<\/i><\/b><\/a>\u00a0and how it directs capital toward climate-related investing that makes real progress toward a net zero future. The following is an edited transcript of her comments. <\/span><\/i>\u2014 John Howell<\/strong>, Climate and Capital Media<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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\"ClimateI\u2019ve spent half my life as an investor and half as an entrepreneur-venture builder. I started off in private equity with HAL Investments, a 12.5 billion euro (US$12.9 billion) fund in The Netherlands, buying and building companies. After four years in private equity, I felt I wanted to be on the other side of the table: I wanted to be building rather than being an investor standing on the sidelines. So, I joined Rocket Internet, which has powered many European tech companies. They asked me to move to Southeast Asia and build that country\u2019s online real estate platform \u2014 which was a real-life MBA experience for me. Then I accidentally became an investor again, as a partner at a Dutch venture capital fund investing in software as a service.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

While I was there, climate change became much more of my top issue. It had always been an issue for me, but in the past couple of years, it began to move from background awareness to top-of-mind, red-hot alert. For me, the book \u201cSix Extinctions\u201d was a pivotal point. The writer [Elizabeth Kolbert] describes how in the last 300 years since the Industrial Revolution, loss of biodiversity and temperature increases have gone so incredibly fast, on a scale and at a speed that the world has never seen. For me, the book helped me realize that nothing else matters. I could be successful in building my career and companies, but if we don\u2019t have a livable planet, there\u2019s no point.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I decided to refocus and spend the next thirty years of my career building companies that help solve climate change. My weapon of choice is capital. Why? Capital is my background. I strongly believe that, ultimately, money makes the world go round. I\u2019m not saying that\u2019s a good thing, but I am saying it\u2019s an important reality. What receives funding grows, and what does not receive funding quietly dies. So, I\u2019m interested in how we move the needle on climate change with capital. That\u2019s what we\u2019re trying to do with Carbon Equity.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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